Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

For this new edition, Leisure and Recreation Management has been rewritten, bringing the subject up to date for the 1990s. In chapters 1-6 the author deals with the nature of play and recreation, our needs in respect of leisure and the factors which influence our participation. Chapters 7-12 consider the leisure product and the planning and provision of leisure by the three main categories of provider: public, voluntary and commercial. Chapters 13-20 deal with management issues: programming, performance appraisal, marketing, event management, personnel, education and training.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• Illustrations
• Preface and acknowledgements
• Introduction, structure and significance of the book
• Introduction - leisure in a changing world?
• Is there a need to manage people's leisure and recreation?
• Significance of this book
• Structure and changes to the book
• Part One Leisure and the needs of people
• Play, Children and the community
• Play shapes human behaviour
• Play in Historical perspective
• The theories - why so people play?
• Play and its implications for leisure services
• The right to play
• Growing up in an uncertain world of social anxiety
• The public sector and play provision
• The government and children's play
• Rights of the child
• The Children Act
• Education Acts
• Children, adventure and the great outdoors
• Play - a lucrative market in the private sector
• Fair play in our time? Play - summary
• Notes and references
• Recreation
• Recreation -an overview
• Recreation theories
• Recreation - any kind of satisfying experience?
• Recreation - an institution and a process?
• Recreation and its implications for leisure services
• Recreation and management
• Recreation - summary
• Notes and references
• Leisure - towards a philosophy and understanding of its evolution
• A philosophy of life and leisure
• Leisure: historical perspective
• Leisure: a variety of approaches, descriptions and definitions
• Leisure: a social problem? Mass leisure
• Leisure - a variety of approaches, descriptions and definitions
• Leisure - a social problem? Mass Leisure
• Leisure - its relationship to work Changing times of the 1960 onwards
• Loss of structures and traditions - 'casual' and 'serious' leisure
• Leisure - a search for identity
• Similarities between play, recreation and leisure
• The inner core - the leisure experience - 'pleasure'
• Public services designed to meet needs - problems and possibilities
• Leisure - summary
• References and notes
• People's needs and factors that influence participation
• Human motivation and need
• Social need
• Needs, demands and leisure and recreation services
• People's needs and leisure planning
• Factors that influence participation
• Individual, personal and family influences on leisure participation
• Social and situational circumstances and leisure participation
• Opportunity and leisure participation, Summary - people's needs and factors that influence participation in leisure
• References and notes
• Part Two Leisure trends, planning and government
• Making use of information on trends in a growth industry
• Population changes
• Changing social behaviour
• Changing markets
• Income - wealth and poverty
• The National Lottery
• The use of time - leisure at home
• The use of time - leisure away from home
• Participation in sports
• Summary - trends in leisure
• Notes and references
• Planning for leisure
• Historical perspective - general planning and leisure planning
• Statutory plans and leisure plans
• Local government - philosophical basis for leisure provision
• Assessment of demand
• Standards of provision
• Spatial analysis
• Hierarchy of facilities
• National participate rates
• Grid approach
• Need index approach
• Facilities planning model
• Public consultation
• The leisure planning process
• Summary - planning for leisure
• Notes and references
• The government and leisure agencies in the United Kingdom
• Introduction
• Department for Culture, media and Sport
• The National Lottery
• Crafts Council
• British Film Institute
• Museums and galleries
• The library sector
• Sports and the Sports Council
• The Central Council of Physical Recreation
• The National Playing Fields Association
• The Countryside Commission
• The Environment Agency
• Tourism and the tourist boards
• English Heritage
• Notes and references
• Part three The Leisure providers
• Leisure provision in the public sector
• Providers of leisure services and facilities
• Public sector services and facilities
• Government and recreat